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I left some homegrown catnip on the kitchen counter and forgot all about it. But the cats discovered it while I was away.

Is there any hope to clean Michele's favorite pair of boots? Using your suggestions, let's find out!

Four days of country music on more than 800 acres of farmland in Brownsville, Ore., equals one pair of dirty boots. But these are custom boots with glitter -- how do I clean them up without wiping out the glitter?

Over the weekend a sleepy little town in Oregon with a population of just under 2,000 was invaded by more than 20,000 country music fans who jammed into the Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival.

The NFL is placing a curfew on some players while they are attending training camp.

Some schools are allowing resource officers to carry tasers. A few parents are raising a stink about it, but some are completely OK with it.

A man seeking a woman via Craigslist is nothing out of the ordinary ... except when the man is looking for a woman to conceive a child during the solar eclipse! Here is the weird, creepy ad ...

A guy in Florida kept hearing noises in his attic, so he decided to investigate and made a horrifying discovery: It was a huge boa constrictor!

I love reading the synopses on the backs of books. Thumbing through the pages as the smell of freshly printed paper tickles my nose. A book -- in printed form -- is a rare thing today. Call me a dinosaur, just like the printed page, but I love seeing how far I've read and how much book I have left to read...

Everyone gushes about their dog. My dog this and my dog that, well what about cats? Hello?! Cats make great pets as well! And today is International Cat Day! Finally, a day for me to celebrate my four-legged fur ball babies!

Crocket and Tubbs were two heartthrobs steaming up my television on the hit show "Miami Vice" when I was a teen. Now, rumors are that Vin Diesel is rebooting "Miami Vice" and that it will debut in the 2018-19 television season.

Fur babies. They steal your heart before you even realize what's happened. Eighteen years ago, my little brother worked at the Yakima Humane Society. He called me to ask if I could foster a kitten they'd found in an alley, skinny, hungry and flea ridden. She didn't meet the required weight to be spayed and the only other option was to euthanize her. I agreed, with every intention to only foster he